Refiguring childhood

Refiguring childhoodAssembled at the intersection of thought and practice, biosocial power attempts to bring envisioned futures into the present, taking hold of life in the form of childhood and shaping the power relations that encapsulate the social and cultural world(s) of adults and children. The book will appeal to researchers and students interested in taking a multi disciplinary approach to the study of childhood and power.

This anthology makes available to students and general readers the rich variety of Victorian magazines for women

Editorial notes and an interpretive essay show the development of Winch’s thinking over time and situate the manuscripts within the broader context of Winch’s work

This feels like a time of environmental and moral crisis without parallel

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and it is a very isolating life to lead

With chapters covering a wide range of topics

• The cultural relationship with Hollywood

edgy social drama

economic and political theory and evidence to show how rivalries within an elite always eclipse (and co-opt) popular or class-based rebellions in driving social change

and the theoretical foundation for a complementary approach to documentation issues and processes: not only in the context of academic study

It is clearly a cumulative critical reassessment of the implications of research going back to the sixties

newspaper exposés and personal testimony